[Shit. Naturally it's one thing he absolutely can't help her with. Well, except maybe if he just...]

Hmm. I know the woods around here can be hard to work out at first, until they get to know you a bit better. Relax for a couple hours and they'll open up again. Sure of it.

[That is how it generally works for visitors. After a few hours the forest would let them out again, but it was in the meantime that things could get hairy.]

I'd try the front gate again, in an hour or so. I hear that's the easiest way.